PAGE FOUR Edttor tat Opinion Trustees' Challenge The llorird of Trustees did not say yes on a bookstore hut it did not say no and it did not pigeonhole it in a The trustees did ask for a comprehensive 1(1;011 on needs. facilities and costs from students and 110. administration. c()lffillittOf President Eric A. \\Talker gave a bookstore qualified aPpr()\%.ll The board meeting and Walker's comment gave Penn State students an encouraging, if not approving, sign; and after 24 years of unheeded requests for a University bookstore, it was certainly welcome. The trustees' decision has indirectly given a flounder ing Student Government Association the chance to prove itself. It is up to SGA to find out exactly what the students want in 'a bookstore and compile an intelligent report for the Board of Trustees' summer meeting. Perhaps next year or the year after, SGA members could point with pride to its role in the establishment of a bookstore and campus cynics would have a harder time dismissing it as a do nothing organization of status seekers. It is also up to students to help SGA members compile that report by giving them intelligent and prompt answers on questionnaires or other queries. We cannot afford ridiculous requests or attempts at humor. SGA must show the trustees and the administration that it has the support of the majority of the students on the bookstore issue. We would like to suggest that SGA take steps to make sure the bookstore issue will not be lost during the usually confusing spring elections. It should also he prepared to pass the bookstore report on to a new organization in case the SGA system does not pass the review of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs this spring Old SGA members and new members must be watch ing the progress of the report and out-going seniors ought to be very concerned about it. An active role in making the bookstore a reality would be one of the most out standing senior gifts in the history of Penn State. Another history-making event would occur if the students, through SGA, could work with the administra tion on this project; and this is not as ridiculous as it sounds. The reports from the students and the adminis tration must complement each other. SGA can submit its report on the inadequacies of the downtown stores and the needs of the students while the administration con siders facilities and costs. President Walker said his idea of a book store was one like those of Cambridge and Oxford and not one selling sweatshirts. The book stores at Cambridge and Oxford provide, in addition to required textbooks, other books dealing with subiects in every field and serve as adjuncts to the uni versities' libraries. This type of store is almost an ideal for the University but its development may take a long time. It is up to the administration and the students to discover the best way to establish the bookstore before its fate again comes under the trustees' consideration in June A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 0111 , Daily Tolirgiatt Successor to The Free Lance. est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University relit The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-clays mattes July 0. 1931 at the State College Pa. Pout Office under the act of March 1. 1070. Malt Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $6.00 Der sear. JOHN BLACK Editor <`;,° Member of The Associated Press and The Intereolleglate Press City Editor: ('arol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor. Gloria WoHord; Sports Editor, Sandy rends.; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum t Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Miele: Copy Editor. Annabelle Rosenthal: Photography Editor, Frederic Bower: Make-up Editor. Joel Myers. Local Ad Mgr., tired Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr. Hal Deisher; National Ad Mgr.. Bessie Rorke; Credit Mgr„ Mary Ann Crane: Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal Melts: Elassifird Ad Mgr.. Constance Riese!: Co•('ircolation Mgrs„ Rosiland Apes. Richard Eittinger: Promotion Mgr., Elaine Mirhal: Personnel Mgr.. Becky Notiudic: (Mire Secretary. Joanne ilnyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Carol Kunkleman; Wire Editor, Dick Leighton: Night Copy Editor, Ann Palmer. Assist ants: Joan Mehaii, Sue Robbins, 011ie Himes, Joan Hartman, Diane Ryesky, Eve Bowers, Sue Bicksler, Linda Leney, Len Bulk iew icz. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manages ..ti rtli 1 °' 111 i li I i lii 14 1 I ' I 1 .. ,4-14 Ali FROM AAE, POCP,To r YOU JUST PRETEND To LIKE ME BECAU S E I HAVE AN UMBRELLA! EVEN HYPOCRITES NATE To GET WET: Adi Gazette Ag. Student Council, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Agronomy Seminar. 4 p.m., 111 Tyson Alpha Kappa Pal, 7 p.m., Theta Delta Chi Alpha Lambd■ Della, 8 :30 HUB assembly room American Association of University Professors. executive committee, 7:30 p.m., 121 Sparks Angel Flight and Arnold Air Society, 7 p.m., recreation room, Cross 14,01 AWS South Halls Council and area Junior and Senior Residents, 6:30 p.m.. Miss Houtz's office, Redifer Beta Gamma Sigma, 6 p.m.. 216 HUB Delta Sigma FL S p.m., 217 HUB Ed. 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The voters in France are willing to go along with his proposal for self-government pending establishment of au tonomous institutions and what De Gaulle hoped would eventually be come an Al gerian repub lic within the French Union providing guarantees for the minority French co 1- ony A majority ROBERTS of voting Moslems in Algiers take a similar stand, But vast numbers of them didn't vote— as per rebel instructions—giv ing clear testimony to the reb- LSU Daily Reveille Says So You Think You Got Troubles (We hereby club_ s Leroy J. Colter, managing editor of the Louisiana State University's Daily . Reveille: author of the "things we wish we'd said.") The editor of the Daily Reveille succumbed to public demand recently after constantly being bombarded with queries rather pointedly designed to indicate that (1) the editor is a nut, and C 2) the Reveille sure could use some improvement. So the editor's question and answer column is given here for your edification and pos sible use, if you find time, Here's the educational effort from the Reveille Q. Why don't you have funny papers'' A. We think we have the funniest paper in Baton Rouge now. Q. Why don't you have an "advice to the lovelorn" like Abby Lane? A. None of our readers have such problems. Q. Why do you have all those misprints A. 'They're the most enter taining part of the whole O. Why do you always say we when referring to yourself in the paper. A. We want our readers to think they're outnumbered. Q. Why do you make so man}• grammatical mistakes? A. Because we ain't never learned no better. Q. Why didn't you publish that poem I sent you? A. It wassa lousy poem. Q. Why don't you print weekly sermons? A. Why doesn't the preacher run the newspaper? Q. Why don't you print recipes? A. We did and left out a line. Twenty people got sick and had to leave school, thereby cancelling their subscriptions. Q. What would you give me \ 0 '(l 2 J e f, 4 1. U~ 1~7 ‘`l HANWP PACK THEIR TOTS TODAY! TRY TO STALL THEM FOR AT LEAST Fie MINUT E S!" el demand for complete inde pendence. Many in Franco did the same. The French leftists voted against De Gaulle, and so did the Algerian French. Under heavy pressure from the Army in Algeria, th e Algerians nevertheless voted no in the districts of Algiers and Oran. Now this division makes one thing clear. The rebel forces hold the negotiating power for Algeria, and De Gaulle for France. It is just as well to speak of them separately, for they are separate except in word, and negotiations can only determine how separate they are going to be in the future. In this respect, it may turn out that the strength of the so-called rebel government has been increased by the referen dum, and certainly the lines of the opposing forces have been drawn more clearly, instead of being diffused around De Gaulle. The very fact that the army exerted so much pressure in TUESDAY. JANUARY 10. 1961 for writing a daily column of moral homespun philosophy for the Reveille? A. A poke in the eye with a sharp stick. 0. Last week I brought you a detailed factual story about the new initiates of Tappa Kegga. You printed one short paragraph and you stuck it on the bottom of an inside page. How come? A. Because nobody but you ever heard of Tappa Kegga. The people had been initiated for eight weeks when you brought it in. The main reason we cut the length of it was be cause we lacked the courage to throw all of it in the waste basket. Q. Why don't you write an editorial and tell those guys on the SGA what they can do to improve the University? A. Why don't you go to the next SGA meeting and tell'em yourself. Q. Why don't you print more letters to the editor? A. Why don't you write me one? And sign it with your name, please—don't be chicken. O. Your paper's got too much advertising. How come? A. Little envelopes with windows in them. Q. Why don't we go have a cup of coffee? A. Why not? COADY ChANS 17N the Algerian districts which voted for De Gaulle will serve to weaken the meaning of that vote for the outside world. And this will be linked to the fact that the vote in the cities, where the army has less con trol, was so different. This raises two questions. How much more time will the world be willing to grant for attainment of De Gaulle's program—a vague one at best —before it turns away from hope of a French solution and begins demanding a world solu tion? How much longer will De Gaulle be able to command the middle of the road against the onslaughts of the French right and left? For it is not only the future of Algeria that lies in the shift ing scales, but also the future of France, where the left has risen and fallen but remained virile ever since the revolution, and where the recent Com munist manifesto claimed a new opening was being cre ated,
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